Solutions Architect

The role

You will be a technical partner to engineers and enterprises building on LiveKit. You will design architectures, build live demos and proofs-of-concept, and guide customers from first conversation to production.

What you will do

• Partner with an account executive as the technical lead on strategic deals
• Advise customers on cloud architecture and deployment across self-hosted and LiveKit Cloud
• Build live demos and reference applications tailored to customer use cases
• Scope and run proofs-of-concept against clear success criteria
• Reason with customers about connectivity, infrastructure, and end-to-end latency
• Create technical content including blog posts, guides, webinars, and conference talks
• Act as the technical enabler for your region's pod
• Share field insight with Product and Engineering to help shape the roadmap

Required qualifications

• 4+ years in solutions architecture, sales engineering, or a customer-facing engineering role
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Comfortable with containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and networking fundamentals
• Able to reason about connectivity, infrastructure, and latency end to end
• Strong programming ability in Python, TypeScript/Node, or Go
• A clear communicator who can demo, present, and write for technical audiences

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of real-time media protocols (WebRTC, RTP/SRTP, WebSockets)
• Familiarity with the AI voice stack: STT/TTS providers, LLM integration, speech-to-speech models, turn detection, and telephony/SIP
• Experience speaking at meetups or conferences, or a track record of technical writing or open-source contributions

Benefits

• Opportunity to build something impactful
• Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
• Competitive salary and equity package
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible vacation policy

About the company

LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing. The platform powers voice and agentic AI applications for OpenAI, Salesforce, Spotify, Meta, and tens of thousands of other developers.